Remembering Ken Dodd

To mark the death of Liverpool’s, most loved comedian, here’s one of the times I interviewed Ken Dodd when I worked in radio in Liverpool.. This interview, first broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside in December 2001, has not been heard since.

Doddy speaks of his affection for Christmas and the coming of the Light of the World. His simple Christian faith was evident in his life and work, including his generous work for charities.

I was talking to Ken in 2001, sitting in the choir stalls of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral, about the Merseyside NHS Carol Service at which he was a regular speaker.